Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2009
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 96, NWS Jackson, KY
NWS Jackson, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 2009, 2:35 PM EDT for Knox County, Laurel County, Whitley County, Kentucky. It was in force for 55 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 2, 2009, 2:35 PM EDT (18:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 2009, 3:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, KY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Knox County, KY, Laurel County, KY, Whitley County, KY
The radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:35 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 245 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1479 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -72 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1358 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Jackson, KY wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 2, 2:22 PM EDT, 13 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 2, 2:22 PM EDT, 13 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 2, 4:16 AM EDT, 10 hours 19 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 416 AM EDT TUE JUN 2 2009 KYZ044-050>052-058>060-068-069-079-080-083>088-104-106>120-031100- FLEMING-MONTGOMERY-BATH-ROWAN-ESTILL-POWELL-MENIFEE-ROCKCASTLE- JACKSON-PULASKI-LAUREL-WAYNE-MCCREARY-WHITLEY-KNOX-BELL-HARLAN- ELLIOTT-MORGAN-JOHNSON-WOLFE-MAGOFFIN-FLOYD-LEE-BREATHITT-KNOTT- OWSLEY-PERRY-CLAY-LESLIE-LETCHER-MARTIN-PIKE- 416 AM EDT TUE JUN 2 2009 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EASTERN KENTUCKY. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT AS A COLD FRONT PASSES THROUGH THE OUTLOOK AREA. AN ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CONTAINING DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL WILL BE POSSIBLE. THUNDERSTORMS ARE AGAIN POSSIBLE ON FRIDAY AND MONDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY EVENING. ABE
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 2, 1:28 PM EDT, 1 hour 7 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 128 PM EDT TUE JUN 2 2009 KYZ079-083>085-021830- PULASKI-WAYNE-WHITLEY-MCCREARY- 128 PM EDT TUE JUN 2 2009 ...A CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS TO AFFECT SOUTH CENTRAL PULASKI AND EAST CENTRAL WAYNE AND EXTREME WEST CENTRAL WHITLEY AND NORTHERN MCCREARY COUNTIES THROUGH 230 PM EDT TUESDAY AFTERNOON... AT 128 PM EDT...A CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED NEAR WIBORG...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR SLOANS VALLEY AROUND 140 PM EDT...ALPINE AROUND 145 PM EDT...PARKERS LAKE AROUND 150 PM EDT...BEULAH HEIGHTS AROUND 205 PM EDT...HONEYBEE AROUND 225 PM EDT... RESIDENTS SHOULD EXPECT HEAVY RAIN...WITH RAINFALL RATES OF UP TO ONE INCH PER HOUR...GUSTY WINDS OF 30 TO 40 MPH...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND SMALL HAIL IN THESE AREAS. DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS ASSOCIATED WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS. TAKE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. REMEMBER...IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER THEN LIGHTNING IS CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE A HAZARD. DUSTY
Local storm report, Jun 2, 1:32 PM EDT, 1 hour 3 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
132 PM EDT TUE JUN 02 2009
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0130 PM HAIL WIBORG 36.81N 84.49W
06/02/2009 E1.00 INCH MCCREARY KY EMERGENCY MNGR
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JCARICOThe office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 1:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Laurel, McCreary, Pulaski, Wayne, Whitley | 51 min |
| Jun 2, 1:43 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Laurel, McCreary, Pulaski, Wayne, Whitley | 62 min |
| Jun 2, 2:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | McCreary, Whitley | 53 min |
| Jun 2, 2:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Pulaski | 54 min |
| Jun 2, 2:52 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Knox, Laurel, McCreary, Wayne, Whitley | 74 min |
| Jun 2, 3:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Clay, Knox, Laurel | 58 min |
| Jun 2, 3:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Clay, Jackson, Laurel, Owsley | 53 min |
| Jun 2, 3:13 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | McCreary | 114 min |
| Jun 2, 3:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | McCreary, Wayne, Whitley | 19 min |
| Jun 2, 3:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Laurel, Pulaski, Rockcastle | 33 min |
| Jun 2, 3:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Jackson, Rockcastle | 55 min |
| Jun 2, 3:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Clay, Harlan, Leslie | 40 min |
| Jun 2, 4:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Breathitt, Lee, Owsley | 55 min |
| Jun 2, 4:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Breathitt, Clay, Leslie, Owsley, Perry | 42 min |
| Jun 2, 4:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Fleming | 39 min |
| Jun 2, 4:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Estill, Powell | 59 min |
| Jun 2, 5:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Fleming, Rowan | 50 min |
| Jun 2, 5:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Floyd, Knott, Letcher, Pike | 37 min |
| Jun 2, 5:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Menifee, Morgan, Wolfe | 40 min |
| Jun 2, 5:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Bath, Fleming, Montgomery, Rowan | 52 min |
| Jun 2, 5:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Pike | 51 min |
| Jun 2, 5:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Bath, Menifee, Montgomery, Morgan, Rowan | 47 min |
| Jun 2, 6:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Martin, Pike | 44 min |
| Jun 2, 6:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Elliott, Morgan, Rowan | 39 min |
| Jun 2, 6:31 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Pike | 3 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kentucky, 2009Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2009
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.